Commentary: Mormon pageants and the performance of whiteness

(Courtesy Rulon Simmons) Charles Bruce was an Olympic athlete from Halifax, Nova Scotia, playing the role of Samuel the Lamanite in the Hill Cumorah Pageant in the 1990s.

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